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Futurama Confirms The Simpsons and Disenchantment Timeline

August 29th, 2023

This article contains spoilers for Futurama season 11 episode 6. The Matt Groening-verse just got a little bigger. The latest episode of Futurama, "I Know What You Did Next Xmas," finally confirms that The Simpsons, Futurama, and Disenchantment are connected by more than just writers and producers. But the timeline’s probably not what – or should we say when – you’re thinking. Disenchantment is Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein’s medieval fantasy-skewing follow-up to Futurama and The Sim...

Tardigrades

August 27th, 2023

Conversation with wavelength.ai on Tardigrades: Wavelength.ai on the discovery of the tardigrade: Johann August Ephraim Goeze's discovery of tardigrades in 1773 generated interest and curiosity within the scientific community. While there isn't a specific quote available from Goeze on the matter, his findings were published in a scientific journal called "Der Naturforscher" (The Naturalist) in 1774. This publication helped introduce tardigrades to the scientific community and sparked furthe...

Origin of Noah’s Ark Story

July 13th, 2023

SEE: https://youtu.be/y2T-QeVY8mUUnveil the enthralling origins of the Biblical flood story in this captivating documentary. Delve into the ancient Mesopotamian flood myths, including the Sumerian flood myth, Atrahasis Epic, and Epic of Gilgamesh, and witness the undeniable connections to the iconic tale of Noah. From shared themes to linguistic correlations, we explore the rich tapestry of these ancient narratives, shedding light on their profound influence on the Genesis flood account.Join ...

Troy before The Iliad

July 13th, 2023

From wavelength.ai The Hittite texts provide some insights into the stories surrounding Troy, although they are not as detailed as the later accounts found in the Iliad and other Greek sources. These texts mention a city called Wilusa, which is believed to be the Hittite name for Troy. The stories depicted in these texts involve conflicts and alliances between various kingdoms in the region. One of the most significant Hittite texts is the Tawagalawa Letter, which is a correspondence betwee...

George A. Romero's Most Underrated Film Isn't Even About Zombies

June 18th, 2023

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Simpsons and Citizen Kane

June 18th, 2023

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Black Mirror Has Always Excelled at Dystopian Design—Here Are 5 ... - Yahoo News

June 18th, 2023

Futuristic interior design in television and film has captivated audiences for decades. As early as the 1960s films like Barbarella and 2001: A Space Odyssey told us walls lined in metallic silvers, heavily minimal white spaces, and geometric shapes were going to be key parts of our home design. The future then was rooted in space (technology) and the unknown (possibility), and so space-age design became popular in homes and in film. It was meant to give viewers a visual representation of fut...

John the Baptist - JB

June 16th, 2023

From Wavelength.ai John the Baptist was a prophet who lived in the wilderness and preached repentance and baptism for the forgiveness of sins. He is considered a major figure in Christianity and is mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible. According to the Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist was born to Zechariah and Elizabeth, who were both elderly and had been unable to have children. An angel appeared to Zechariah and told him that his wife would give birth to a son who would prepare the...

Analysis of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

June 15th, 2023

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a novel by Italo Calvino (1923–85) from late in his writing career. Calvino was an Italian fiction writer well known for stories and novels that range in character from fables to neorealist tales. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler incorporates these disparate elements into a single text. The book meditates on the art of storytelling and features a character simply named the Reader as its protagonist. Written largely in the second person, the story begin...

The silence of Homer’s Cyclades — Tracing the footsteps of the Catalogue of Ships, and beyond

May 31st, 2023

Open in appSign In The silence of Homer’s Cyclades — Tracing the footsteps of the Catalogue of Ships, and beyondJames Hua·FollowPublished inOstraka44 min read·Dec 6, 2019 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/14214276937. All photos the authors unless otherwise stated.Daunted by the task of listing all the Greek and Trojan forces participating in the Trojan War in Iliad 2, Homer momentarily loses his divine connection with the Muses, which he harmonised from the very first line of Book 1 and ...

Map of the Cyclades islands in Greece

May 31st, 2023

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Summary of the Odyssey in 12 steps - by Wavelength AI

May 16th, 2023

1. Odysseus leaves for the Trojan War. I think they mean leaves to return home from the Trojan War - zas 2. Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops Polyphemus. 3. Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds to aid his journey home, but his crew opens it, causing a storm that blows them off course. 4. Odysseus and his men encounter Circe, who turns his crew into pigs. 5. Odysseus travels to the underworld and speaks with the spirit of Tiresias. When Odysseus travels to the underworld, he seeks out...

Story Structure: 3 Proven Templates for Timeless Storytelling

May 13th, 2023

 Story Structure: 3 Proven Templates for Timeless Storytelling Posted on Jul 18, 2019 by R.E. Vance NTweet kShare sShare APin40 G40 Shares Your story structure does matter. Get this right, and your readers will definitely see the difference. If your book doesn’t have a cohesive structure…they may not be back for more. This guide to story structure covers: What is story structure?Three Act StructureHero’s JourneyThe 5 Milestones Get Bestselling Plug-...

Better Call Saul: Zafiro Añejo Tequila is Breaking Bad’s Rosebud

May 6th, 2023

This article contains light spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6. One of the most artistic scenes in either Better Call Saul or its parent show, Breaking Bad, is the cold open to the sixth season premiere episode. The audience is taken through Saul Goodman’s house in a first person point of view camera angle. A variety of items belonging to Saul throughout his adult life that have been previously seen in the two shows reappear here. From shoes Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) wore when walkin...

Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

April 27th, 2023

English teachers, myself included, like to correct people who conflate Dr. Frankenstein with his monster, but recently I’ve started to consider the possibility that the misnomer speaks to a fundamental equation of artists with monsters. Jenny Ofill introduced the term "art monster" in her novel Dept. of Speculation. Shortly after having her first child, the novel’s nameless narrator reflects on the path she might have taken, were it not for motherhood: My plan was to never get married. ...

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead - Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

March 25th, 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTSI’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media July 2-7, 2023 in MontrealDEADLINE March 31, 2023CORERISC: the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk, and The Sociability of Sleep seek participants for a week-long writing workshop (July 2-7, 2023) centered on sleep in 21st century horror media. We aim to explore how horror media–from films to television to social media–responds to the conditions of sleep as a site of embodied risk today....

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence

March 25th, 2023

A friend explains that the world is divided into paragraph and sentence writers. A paragraph writer is like a brick mason, working with consistent materials and focused on maintaining a clean line as a wall unfolds. Building a stone wall, a sentence writer in contrast begins with a pile of rocks—clots of material formed by processes beyond human measure. In This Wide Terraqueous World, Laird Hunt is a sentence writer in whose hand the sentences turn like prisms, reframing these essays’ collec...

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence

March 25th, 2023

John Wick 4 Runtime Makes It The Longest John Wick Ever — And That's a Good Thing

March 24th, 2023

The first John Wick was a perfectly plotted movie that came in at a tight 1 hour and 36 minutes, a rarity in today’s increasingly overlong blockbuster landscape. But as the world of Wick expanded, so did its runtimes: Chapter 2 clocked in at 2 hours, 2 minutes, and Chapter 3 was a hefty 2 hours, 11 minutes. Now the recently-released Chapter 4 comes in at the longest of them all: a whopping 2 hours and 49 minutes. Who would want to spend nearly three hours watching Keanu Reeves’ assassin ma...

Most unforgettable couples in movie history

March 17th, 2023

Clockwork from top left: The Empire Strikes Back (Screenshot: 20th Century Studios/YouTube); The Matrix (Screenshot: Warner Bros./YouTube); Rocky IV: The Director’s Cut (Screenshot: MGM/YouTube); Titanic (Screenshot: 20th Century Studios/YouTube) Graphic: The A.V. Club When you think back at the most memorable on-screen couples in movie history, it’s natural to think of romantic dramas and sugary rom-coms first—something that stars Meg...

Aggravating plot holes in otherwise great movies - a list of 15

March 17th, 2023

There’s nothing worse than a smart-alec film fan.We’ve all done it, of course. Picked apart a cheesy blockbuster for its perceived flaws. Poked holes in some sloppy plot logic. Proposed another ending that would have made oh so much more sense.The fact is, though, we’re often not as smart as we think we are. Often, films are simply more interested in telling a story than in bulletproofing themselves against pedants.Sometimes, even widely circulated complaints are totally fatuous. People watch...

Preview Post: Updates, Mine Craft, Super Bowl + Diana/Diana

March 16th, 2023

Post includes only about 30% of the full post which will be coming Friday. The parts you see here will be improved then as well. I post these preview posts mostly because I don’t like to go that long without a post. Updates The news everywhere is negative, but looks can be deceiving. There is a great contradiction between the way things look and reality, but it’s this way because it has to be this way. The comms explain that much of what we see is a lie and that inc...

Symbolism Behind the Hairstyles in House of the Dragon

March 6th, 2023

House of the Dragon: Symbolism in the Hairstyles The Symbolism Behind the Hairstyles in "House of the Dragon" October 24, 2022 by Jessica Harrington First Published: September 15, 2022 Watch out! This post contains spoilers. Image Source: HBO The first season of "House of the Dragon," HBO's prequel to "Game of Thrones," dives into the tumultuous past of the House Targaryen almost 200 years before Daene...

British Erotica

February 22nd, 2023

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969). "British erotica" has long been considered an oxymoron, and this distinction is not entirely unfounded. While European auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Tinto Brass, Walerian Borowczyk, and Luis Buñuel were treating copulation as a springboard to philosophical ruminations, the British were paying to see Barbara W...

Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)

February 16th, 2023

Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)SourceURL: http://internationalcinemareview.blogspot.com/2023/02/tomu-uchida-keisatsukan-police-officer.html looking homeward by Douglas Messerli Eizo Yamauchi (screenplay, based on a story by Toshihiko Takeda), Tomu Uchida (director) 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman) / 1933 Only this film of the several of the several Tomu Uchida made in pre-war Japan has survived intact. But Keisatsukan...

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